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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: MSNBC suspends Mark Halperin for Obama remark Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup Census Update: What the World Will Look like in 2050 The $1 billion that no one in the United States wants Could Obama ignore Congress if they refuse to raise the debt ceiling? Yes, and he should, some experts say Glenn Beck signs off from Fox News: ‘This show has become a movement; it doesn’t belong on TV’ US man stung by scorpion on commercial flight Luxurious Camping Close to the Bay Area American tourist left on Great Reef by tour boat company NBC News brushes off report of Chris Hansen affair Denton couponer clipped for lifting newspaper inserts Glenn Beck’s future, and Fox News Channel’s without him Slimy invasion plagues Jersey Shore An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible The Founding Fathers, unzipped Low budget is no problem for cell phone filmmaker Dad's suicide note is setback for Anthony defense Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row How much will our wars cost? Report says $4 trillion Birthers sue Esquire for more than $100 million over satire they say hurt book sales Obama campaign rollout hasn’t all gone as planned Big banks relieved as Fed sets debit card rule Casey Anthony won't testify; defense rests AP IMPACT: Questions arise over FBI terror profile Nigerian man sneaks on plane with invalid pass Pond insect 'loudest animal on Earth' Purple things hanging from Pennsylvania trees are bug-fighters Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: sources Pakistan ends U.S. use of base for drone attacks: report Obama, Congress work against, and with, the clock U.S. caught China buying more debt than disclosed Jihadist web forum knocked off Internet MSNBC suspends analyst for remark on Obama AP source: Accuser issues shake Strauss-Kahn case Turtles Ground Airplanes, MySpace Bringing ‘Sexy Back,’ and the 40th Anniversary of Willy Wonka Vitamin D Slashes Diabetes Risk Sarkozy assaulted at public appearance Jewish Dems losing faith in Obama Chavez says surgery removed tumor in Cuba Four signs the White House is worried about 2012 MSNBC suspends Mark Halperin for Obama remark Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:58 AM PDT The Cutline - MSNBC has suspended political analyst and Time magazine writer Mark Halperin indefinitely over a remark he made about President Obama Thursday morning. "Mark Halperin's comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable," said MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines in a statement. "We apologize to the President, the White House and all of our viewers. We strive for [...] Full Story1 Top Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup Thu,30 Jun 2011 10:12 AM PDT The Envoy - One of the worst doctored photographs in Internet history? That's the emerging verdict on a clumsily altered photo of bureacrats in the sleepy county of Huili, in southwest China's Sichuan province. In an ill-fated PR stunt, the trio of area government officials are shown appearing to float over the surface of a road, casting nary [...] Full Story1 Top Census Update: What the World Will Look like in 2050 Thu,30 Jun 2011 01:48 AM PDT Time.com - Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third place, with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates in two of the world's most economically and politically influential countries, Japan and Russia, will cause them to fall from their current positions as the 9th and 10th most populous nations, respectively, to 16th and 17th. Full Story1 Top The $1 billion that no one in the United States wants Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT The Lookout - Budget cuts thanks to the stalled economy have imperiled care for the mentally ill, left a new school building unstaffed, and perhaps most disastrously, limited efforts to keep nukes out of the hands of terrorists. And yet the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is sitting on $1 billion in gold dollar coins it says the [...] Full Story1 Top Could Obama ignore Congress if they refuse to raise the debt ceiling? Yes, and he should, some experts say Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:21 AM PDT The Ticket - As both major parties debate their conditions for raising the nation's debt ceiling, some Senate Democrats and constitutional scholars are questioning whether the limit is constitutional in the first place. Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told The Huffington Post this week that he's part of a group of lawmakers now examining whether, in the case that [...] Full Story1 Top Glenn Beck signs off from Fox News: ‘This show has become a movement; it doesn’t belong on TV’ Thu,30 Jun 2011 03:36 PM PDT The Cutline - Glenn Beck began his final show on Fox News where he'll be for the foreseeable future: outside the building, and not on TV. "We've done some amazing things together," Beck, flanked by at least one bodyguard, told viewers as he showed them the view of the set from the street, noting the bulletproof glass windows [...] Full Story1 Top US man stung by scorpion on commercial flight Thu,30 Jun 2011 02:45 PM PDT AP - All Jeff Ellis could do was wait as he sat terrified 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) in the air staring at the wriggling scorpion that stung him on a flight to Alaska. Full Story1 Top Luxurious Camping Close to the Bay Area Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:39 AM PDT The San Francisco Local - Sabrina Blardone In need of a nature fix without the hassle? We found the perfect middle ground between staying at a hotel and camping! No tents needed for these fabulous lodges in the Bay Area, where you can enjoy outdoor … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top American tourist left on Great Reef by tour boat company Wed,29 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT The Lookout - An American tourist fought off panic when an Australian tour boat company accidentally left him stranded near the Great Barrier Reef in his snorkeling gear. Michigan 28-year-old Ian Cole says he grew frightened when he surfaced and realized the Passions of Paradise tour boat was gone last Saturday. Since American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan disappeared after [...] Full Story1 Top NBC News brushes off report of Chris Hansen affair Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:40 AM PDT The Cutline - NBC News doesn't seem much concerned with an irony-clad scandal that appears to be enveloping one of its "Dateline NBC" correspondents. The network personality in question is Chris Hansen, best known for entrapping pedophiles on the erstwhile MSNBC reality series "To Catch a Predator." Now, after shaming many an alleged pervert in hidden-camera sting operations, [...] Full Story1 Top Denton couponer clipped for lifting newspaper inserts Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:58 AM PDT Y! News - Dallas - Arezow Doost, CBS 11 News Sybil Hudson sits on her living room floor with a pair of scissors and her coupons. It's what she does hoping to save her family a few dollars. She's been clipping coupons for the past year, … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Glenn Beck’s future, and Fox News Channel’s without him Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT The Cutline - It was supposed to be a quaint summer evening outdoors with the family. Green grass. Golden sunset. Picnic baskets. Old Hitchcock movie under the stars. But to hear Glenn Beck tell it, the scene at Manhattan's Bryant Park Monday evening was more like a lynching. No sooner had the talk show host sat down with [...] Full Story1 Top Slimy invasion plagues Jersey Shore Wed,29 Jun 2011 05:22 AM PDT News - Local Philadelphia - Walt Hunter reports from Ocean City, NJ where small jellyfish-like creatures are washing up on the beach in large numbers. Full Story1 Top An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible Wed,29 Jun 2011 11:46 AM PDT AP - Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. Full Story1 Top The Founding Fathers, unzipped Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:45 AM PDT The Daily Beast - The Constitution’s framers were flawed like today’s politicians, so it’s high time we stop embalming them in infallibility. Full Story1 Top Low budget is no problem for cell phone filmmaker Wed,29 Jun 2011 02:36 PM PDT The Upshot - With the special-effects blockbuster "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" hitting theaters, now's a good time to remind budding auteurs that one doesn't need a hundred million dollar budget to make a good movie. In fact, with some creativity, you can make an award-winning flick for next to nothing. Tech company Nokia recently held a competition [...] Full Story1 Top Dad's suicide note is setback for Anthony defense Wed,29 Jun 2011 01:45 PM PDT AP - Casey Anthony's father wrote in a suicide note that he had unanswered questions about what happened to his granddaughter, a revelation that undercuts defense claims that the toddler drowned accidentally and he helped cover it up. Full Story1 Top Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row Thu,30 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT AFP - Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread disruption to schools and state-run services. Full Story1 Top How much will our wars cost? Report says $4 trillion Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT The Lookout - A new report out of Brown University estimates that the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--together with the counterinsurgency efforts in Pakistan--will, all told, cost $4 trillion and leave 225,000 dead, both civilians and soldiers. The group of economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel, and political scientists involved in the project estimated that the cost of [...] Full Story1 Top Birthers sue Esquire for more than $100 million over satire they say hurt book sales Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:34 AM PDT The Cutline - If you thought birther conspiracy theorists went the way of Donald Trump's presidential hopes, think again. Joseph Farah--who runs the World Net Daily website and a related book imprint--and Jerome Corsi, author of "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Hussein Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President," held a press conference in Washington, [...] Full Story1 Top Obama campaign rollout hasn’t all gone as planned Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:36 AM PDT The Ticket - It's been a little less than three months since President Obama announced his 2012 re-election campaign. While that carefully choreographed rollout was hardly a surprise, the Obama campaign team has run into some early unexpected bumps in run-up to 2012. Just this week, the Obama camp was forced to defend using the White House as a [...] Full Story1 Top Big banks relieved as Fed sets debit card rule Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:41 PM PDT AFP - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed the fees which banks charge for debit card transactions, but did not cut them as deeply as initially expected, handing a partial victory to Wall Street. Full Story1 Top Casey Anthony won't testify; defense rests Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:39 PM PDT AP - Casey Anthony did not take the stand in her murder trial as defense attorneys wrapped up their case Thursday without presenting concrete evidence that Anthony's 2-year-old daughter Caylee wasn't killed but accidentally drowned. Full Story1 Top AP IMPACT: Questions arise over FBI terror profile Wed,29 Jun 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - The FBI's most-wanted list features a dated black-and-white photograph for the man wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Saif al-Adel, reads the glaring red banner, alias Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi. Full Story1 Top Nigerian man sneaks on plane with invalid pass Thu,30 Jun 2011 03:31 PM PDT AP - A Nigerian man boarded a Virgin America airplane last week with an invalid boarding pass â€" making it through a federal security checkpoint where travelers must show identification and their boarding passes. Full Story1 Top Pond insect 'loudest animal on Earth' Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:59 AM PDT AFP - A tiny 'water boatman' insect is the world's loudest animal relative to its body size, according to a new study. Full Story1 Top Purple things hanging from Pennsylvania trees are bug-fighters Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT News - Local Philadelphia - Lynne Adkins, KYW Newsradio 1060 Strange purple boxes are springing up in trees along roadways in southeastern Pennsylvania.  They're deep purple in color and look like box kites. But it's not a joke or part of a creative installation. Jean … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: sources Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - The sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is near collapse, sources said on Thursday, raising the prospect of a dramatic return to France's presidential election race. Full Story1 Top Pakistan ends U.S. use of base for drone attacks: report Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT Reuters - SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country to launch drone strikes against militant groups, the defense minister was quoted as saying, as ties remain strained between the two countries. Full Story1 Top Obama, Congress work against, and with, the clock Thu,30 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT AP - In prodding Congress to act swiftly to avoid a government default on its financial obligations, President Barack Obama has Isaac Bassett and a long history of procrastination conspiring against him. Full Story1 Top U.S. caught China buying more debt than disclosed Thu,30 Jun 2011 05:44 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rules of Treasury auctions may not sound like the stuff of high-stakes diplomacy. But a little-noticed 2009 change in how Washington sells its debt sheds new light on America's delicate balancing act with its biggest creditor, China. Full Story1 Top Jihadist web forum knocked off Internet Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:08 AM PDT AP - A popular jihadist Internet forum has been knocked off the Internet, and counterterrorism experts say it appears it was hacked. Full Story1 Top MSNBC suspends analyst for remark on Obama Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:58 AM PDT AP - An off-color remark about President Barack Obama on "Morning Joe" has led to the suspension of politician analyst Mark Halperin. Full Story1 Top AP source: Accuser issues shake Strauss-Kahn case Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:23 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her, and they are taking the extraordinary step of seeking a substantial reduction in his pricey bail, a person familiar with the case said Thursday. Full Story1 Top Turtles Ground Airplanes, MySpace Bringing ‘Sexy Back,’ and the 40th Anniversary of Willy Wonka Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:58 AM PDT Trending Now - Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow & Follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending Keep up with Adriana on Facebook.com/AdrianaDiazNews & on Twitter @AdrianaTweeting Despite clear skies in New York City, dozens of flights were delayed yesterday from the city's John F. Kennedy airport. That's because Mother Nature meddled with air travel in an unusual way: turtles on the [...] Full Story1 Top Vitamin D Slashes Diabetes Risk Wed,29 Jun 2011 04:35 PM PDT Yahoo! Contributor Network - People at high risk of developing diabetes may benefit from consuming Vitamin D. According to WebMD, Tufts Medical Center physician Anastassios Pittas says in a recent study, "For every 5 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) increase in vitamin D levels, the risk of developing diabetes dropped by 8%." Although the results of this study are encouraging, Dr. Pittas acknowledges that other studies are needed to determine if vitamin D supplementation can indeed ward off diabetes. ... Full Story1 Top Sarkozy assaulted at public appearance Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT The Envoy - French President Nicholas Sarkozy was grabbed by the shoulder and almost yanked to the ground by a man at a public appearance in the southwestern French town of Brax today. The incident happened as Sarkozy was greeting people who had gathered along a barricade to shake hands with the French leader. Sarkozy's assailant, who was [...] Full Story1 Top Jewish Dems losing faith in Obama Wed,29 Jun 2011 02:32 AM PDT Politico - David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples â€" all Obama voters in 2008 â€" nearly turned into a screaming match. Full Story1 Top Chavez says surgery removed tumor in Cuba Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:40 PM PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told his country Thursday night he underwent surgery in Cuba to remove a cancerous tumor but assured them he is doing well, seeking to cool growing questions about his health and ability to govern. Full Story1 Top Four signs the White House is worried about 2012 Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT Exclusives - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal It's been a rough June for the White House. Instead of being able to run a campaign taking credit for economic improvement, President Obama will, according to the latest forecasts, be trying to win four more … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top

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